I recently attended an event during which someone was posthumously recognized for the kind and socially correct acts in which he engaged during his life. It was a nice ceremony, and very meaningful to his family. I did not know the individual, but he sounds like the sort of person I would like to have known.
I regret that he was not recognized during his lifetime by this group honoring him. I am not sure why that did not occur, but it is what it is. It made me start to think how many of us wait until someone has died to acknowledge how important they are, how much we appreciate their efforts, and how much they mean to us.
It is sad that these tributes will not be heard by the one about whom they are offered. Why is it that it is often only at death that we take pause to pay tribute. Are we really that busy? Or just too self centered?
Is there someone in your world, maybe a family member, a friend, an acquaintance, a community figure, a mentor, an almost stranger whom you admire? Is it time for you to inform that person how much they and their efforts, beliefs, values, principals, mean to you?
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